The positive attitude pays off in the eighth minute when the ball breaks to Gonzalo Higuaín at the edge of the area and the striker produces a superb instinctive finish to sweep it first time into the bottom corner of the goal

Just before the hour mark Gonzalo Higuain almost gets his, and Argentina's, second. He showed strength and skill to run past two defenders and then nutmegged Kompany! Courtois came out to try to stop him from crowning the run with a goal but the striker fired past him ... and out off the crossbar